Sunday 6 March 2022

The space within the pot

The space within the pot, is known by its shape & volume and appears to have a separate identity. When the pot breaks, the space within, merges with the space outside, losing its identity.  - The space within, was never spearate from the space outside. - The identity was apparent, and the it was a superimposed concept, existing only in the minds of the perceived. - Once the pot breaks, the so-called identity is lost for ever, never to return. - The separate space within, such an entity was never born, cannot be reborn, and never existed even. - Even if a similar pot is reconstructed with all the features, the space within can never claim to have the identity of the old pot. - This is the case of our identity too. - The entity, the so-called “you” cannot be born, and never be reborn. - All fanciful concepts of spirituality, progress, rebirth and karma for such an entity have sprouted from ignorance and propagated by religion.
 

The space within the pot, is known by its shape & volume and appears to have a separate identity. When the pot breaks, the space within, merges with the space outside, losing its identity.

- The space within, was never spearate from the space outside.
- The identity was apparent, and the it was a superimposed concept, existing only in the minds of the perceived.
- Once the pot breaks, the so-called identity is lost for ever, never to return.
- The separate space within, such an entity was never born, cannot be reborn, and never existed even.
- Even if a similar pot is reconstructed with all the features, the space within can never claim to have the identity of the old pot.
- This is the case of our identity too.
- The entity, the so-called “you” cannot be born, and never be reborn.
- All fanciful concepts of spirituality, progress, rebirth and karma for such an entity have sprouted from ignorance and propagated by religion.
 

Sunday 27 February 2022

Neo-Advaita

 

Truth is one. All masters try to convey the same thing. Teachings of old masters would have been misinterpreted by some people, made as a concept, a story, or a religion by the years passed by.
People take what is convenient for them, a part, ignoring the context, mostly those prescribed for the beginners, or an answer to a particular person. They fail to grasp the whole, the root. They would maintain that just because their Guru talked to a Goddess daily, it is part of their practice too, and it is not fair to classify it as a concept or ignorance.

People who are not so serious, who are satisfied with the religious-part of the teachings, would be enjoying it just like a kid with a lollipop. Immediately when you take out the lollipop, the child starts crying. Such people would classify all those who disturb their convenient beliefs as "Neo-Advaitins".
They fail to grasp that the very entity that is seeking is a concept and any knowledge is still a concept. They are grossly immersed in their own conceptual world of spirituality, awaiting an objective change of status, a permanent euphoric state for the entity they believe themselves to be. “Indeed there is no such thing as enlightenment. The apperception of this fact is itself enlightenment!”

Do you know, Maharaj himself is considered as a "Neo-Advaitin" and His teachings are not allowed in many popular Advaita Vedanta groups.

The basic practice of neo-Advaita is self-inquiry, via the question "Who am I?", or simply the direct recognition of the non-existence of the "I" or "ego." This recognition is taken to be equal to the Advaita Vedanta recognition of the identity of Atman and Brahman, or the recognition of the "Formless Self."

Tony Parsons writes that classical Advaita Vedanta is just another established religion with a proliferation of teachings and literature, all of which very successfully and consistently miss the mark, qualifying it as one of the many systems of personal indoctrination promising the eventual spiritual fulfilment. According to Parsons, classical Advaita Vedanta has no relevance to liberation because it is born out of a fundamental misconception, namely that there is something like a separate individual who can become enlightened. According to Parsons, this is a direct denial of abiding oneness (Advaita).

Manmohan Sethumadhavan

If a genius scientist made an exact clone of you

  

If a genius scientist made an exact clone of you, including all your memories and emotions, would that be you?

If not, then who are you?

Manmohan Sethumadhavan 

Wednesday 23 February 2022

The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads.

 

The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads.

Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist. One of the founders of quantum theory.

Saturday 19 February 2022

Right and wrong, pleasure and pain, exist in mind only

 

धर्माधर्मौ सुखं दुःखं मानसानि न ते विभो ।
न कर्तासि न भोक्तासि मुक्त एवासि सर्वदा ॥

Right and wrong, pleasure and pain, exist in mind only.
They are not your concern. You neither do nor enjoy. You are free.

Ashtavakra Gita

Sunday 9 January 2022

You are That


 स य एषोऽणिमैतदात्म्यमिदँ  सर्वं
तत्सत्यँ स आत्मा तत्त्वमसि श्वेतकेतो

That which is the subtlest - the essence of the entire world;
That is the Self; the Truth;  You are That !

Chandogyopanishad

Monday 3 January 2022

Time is in the mind. Space is in the mind.

 

Time is in the mind. Space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality, all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Friday 26 November 2021

Consciousness - the fundamental - Max Planck

 

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

Max Planck - German Physicist, Originator of modern quantum theories


Wednesday 10 November 2021

Eruka - Telugu translation of Hindi book Pahachan

 

Book name : Eruka
Original Hindi Name : Pahachan
Original Hindi Translation By : Sachin Kshirsagar & Rahul Gajbhiye
Telugu Translation By : B.Shreedhar Babu

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Tuesday 21 September 2021

How can an 'appearance' make any 'progress' towards any objective?

 

The problem apparently is about 'progress'. Now, who is to make the progress, and progress towards what? I have said this repeatedly and untiringly that you are the Conscious Presence, the animating consciousness which gives sentience to phenomenal objects; that you are not a phenomenal object, which is merely an appearance in the consciousness of those who perceive it. How can an 'appearance' make any 'progress' towards any objective? Now, instead of letting this basic apperception impregnate your very being, what you do is to accept it merely as an ideological thesis and ask the question. How can a conceptual appearance know whether it is making any conceptual progress towards its conceptual liberation? - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sunday 19 September 2021

Discard all traditional standards

 

Discard all traditional standards. Leave them to the hypocrites. Only what liberates you from desire and fear and wrong ideas is good. As long as you worry about sin and virtue you will have no peace. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Saturday 18 September 2021

Mantra Yoga, Kundalini Awakening, Chakras, Gayatri

 

Mantra Yoga, Kundalini Awakening, Chakras, Gayatri : Throw it out, but hang onto your being, your own Self. Don’t accept anything except your being, the knowledge 'I Am'. Just be. Forget everything else. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Monday 23 August 2021

There are no distinctive marks of Jnana - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  

There are no distinctive marks of Jnana. Only ignorance can be recognized, not Jnana.A Jnani does not claim to be something special. All those who proclaim their own greatness and uniqueness are not Jnanis.They are mistaking some unusual development for realization.The Jnani shows no tendency to proclaim himself to be a Jnani.He considers himself to be perfectly normal, true to his real nature.Proclaiming oneself to be an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent deity is a clear sign of ignorance. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj


 

Wednesday 18 August 2021

The road is the goal - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj


Thursday 12 August 2021

To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare.


To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita (Nondualism), and a Guru, belonging to the Navnath Sampradaya. Sri Nisargadatta, with his direct and minimalistic explanation of non-dualism, is considered the most famous teacher of Advaita since Ramana Maharshi. In 1973, the publication of his most famous and widely-translated book, "I AM THAT", an English translation of his talks in Marathi by Maurice Frydman, brought him worldwide recognition and followers.

According to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, the purpose of spirituality is simply to know who you are. His discussions are not for academic scholars. He is a rebellious spirit, abrupt in his style of discussion, provocative, and immensely profound, cutting to the core and wasting little effort on inessentials. He talked about the 'direct way' of knowing the Final Reality, in which one becomes aware of one's original nature through mental discrimination, breaking the mind's false identification with the ego, knowing that "You are already That".

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